# Sunil J Basanagoudar > Staff Engineer Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/suniljbasanagoudar • Test/Validation engineer evolved in validation most of system and system components to evaluate performance ,functionality along with stress benchmark with different Firmware check with most common or specific tools and automation scripts in Agile environment • Experience in the storage industry in SSD, HDD, storage systems, or a related technology • Familiar in creating the test cases and plans to accommodate and cover the most /all areas of testing the component under test • Have experience in managing the team, test development hypervisor environment , using and configuring different test tools and configuration • Bug analysis and evaluation of fix and test closure reports • experience with troubleshooting, test failures, and systems integration • experience working in hardware development labs and supporting hardware bring-up ## Work Experience ### Staff Engineer @ Samsung Semiconductor Jan 2022 – Present | San Jose, California, United States ### Validation Engineer(System/Software) @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise Jan 2014 – Jan 2024 | Houston, Texas, United States •Development FW validation: validating Dev Scenario for testing Dev Firmware build for Smoke/Sanity Testing and manual end-to-end Testing •Current firmware feature validation: Testing of most recent feature set firmware build with development OneView •Platform firmware regression testing: upgrade/Downgrade firmware there by validating impact on BIOS op-tions, iLO, ROM, TPM •Enablement Testing: early testing to validate Server with different vendors like Intel, Broadcom, Emulex, Smart Array, Qlogic •Performing Firmware validation for Online/Offline platform on different server hardware including server manager (C700, Synergy) and validating the availability, downtime, correctness and impact of the operation •Modifying the existing Scripts for validating new feature in ROBOT framework using python •Perform MAT testing w.r.t Firmware Build (SPP) •Configured single or multiple enclosures with synergy composer powered by Oneview as per the test requirement to deploy composable compute, storage, fabric and performed Firmware updates for the shared infrastructure. •Test for integration between One View and CFM •Setting up CPT server for deploying OS on multiple Rack Servers and Configuring FTS as per kickstart file •Built Scale RIG with 250+ server and 50+ Fabric and testing the same •Configuration of OneView and Composable Fabric using Python Scripts •Build vSAN environment for VMware integration testing with Composable Fabric Manager •Perform Traffic Validation using Python Script and IO meter, Meat Grinder •Perform Solution Robustness Use Case for validating like datacentre operation like power outage •Perform backup/Restore, hardware failure, hardware Replacement, Concurrency Test Seniors in Scale environment •Performing Firmware validation on Rack server and verifying the same for correctness for ROM, CPLD, iLO (BMC) •Performing Switch NOS update and operation like switch failure/reboot via composable Fabric manager (Management Plane) in Scale Environment ### System Engineer @ Tulip Telecom Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 ● Managing around 100+ rack in Datacentres. ● Planning and configuring the Rack instalment with client specified hardware. ● Configuring the server hardware, updating/managing for firmware/Drivers, BIOS configuration, Storage con-figuration ● Configurating the storage as per specification and deployment of Operating System. ● L1 network configuration (TOR Switch) for Client Rack form Datacentre MUX ● Co-ordinate with client and application team for validating the configuration ● Specialized required test infrastructure deployment and configuration ● Switch NOS upgrading as and when Clients required ## Education ### Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in Electronics and Communications Engineering Vivekananda Institute of Technology, BANGALORE ### PUC K.L.E. Society's S. Nijalingappa College (KLE SNC), Bengaluru ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sunil-j-basanagoudar-88b52280 --- Source: https://flows.cv/suniljbasanagoudar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/suniljbasanagoudar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12